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First nickelback Chris Culliver said he wouldn’t play with a gay teammate.

The 49ers tried to douse the firestorm, pointing out several players were involved in an anti-bullying video campaign in support of gay rights. But. according to USA Today, Ahmad Brooks and nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga had nothing to do with the It Gets Better project.

“I didn’t make any video,” Brooks said. “This is America and if someone wants to be gay, they can be gay. It’s their right. But I didn’t make any video.”

When Brooks was shown the video, he said he remembered making it but it had nothing to do with gay youth. “Oh, that. It was an anti-bullying video, not a gay (rights) video,” he said.

Sopoaga said he had no recollection of agreeing to a video aimed at gay youth. “No,” Sopoaga said. “I never went. And now someone is using my name.”

The video shows Brooks, Sopoaga, Ricky Jean-Francois and Donte Whitner encouraging young people. But only Whitner alludes to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people so it’s possible the other players didn’t understand the aim of the video. Dan Savage, the writer who started the It Gets Better campaign after a spate of suicides, said on Twitter he’d remove the 49ers video from the It Gets Better project.

49ers Ahmad Brooks and Isaac Sopoaga deny making gay rights ad

First nickelback Chris Culliver said he wouldn’t play with a gay teammate.

The 49ers tried to douse the firestorm, pointing out several players were involved in an anti-bullying video campaign in support of gay rights. But. according to USA Today, Ahmad Brooks and nose tackle Isaac Sopoaga had nothing to do with the It Gets Better project.